Автор Тимо Шмитц. Оригинальное название: Are Hinduism and Buddhism really pantheistic? [3 апреля 2022 г.] Раздаются голоса, утверждающие, что существует либо Творец, следовавший образцам авраамических религий, либо пантеистическая сила, которую якобы можно найти в индуизме и буддизме. На самом деле существует распространенное заблуждение о пантеизме. Пантеизм означает, что Бог имманентен, поскольку «все есть Бог», и,Continue reading “Действительно ли индуизм и буддизм пантеистичны?”
Category Archives: Buddhism
Accepting our experiences as part of the past
A few posts ago, I talked of Stefanie Stahl’s views on the Inner Child; she uses a paradigm which is quite common in psychology. This paradigm is actually quite compatible with the Buddhist storehouse-consciousness. I also talked in another post about Gavin Sexton and actually, he uses a completely opposite approach and this approach isContinue reading “Accepting our experiences as part of the past”
Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 6
An important question which always pops up when talking about virtues is the question of their source. Do they have a reliable source and are they trustworthy? When we want to talk of the Laws of Judaism or the Ten Commandments in a Christian perspective, then it is not enough to say that they wereContinue reading “Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 6”
Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 5
In the last part, I introduced the only Catholic Church in the TAR, and thus a tiny minority; today, we talk of the majority religion of the Tibetans and get acquainted with their views on God. Though there are many different Tibetan ethnicities, as pointed out in Part 3, something which connects them all isContinue reading “Reflecting about God with our Tibetan friends – Part 5”
Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 3: Transforming bad circumstances into our path of enlightenment
Based on Chapter 12 “Lojong” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] After we dedicated ourselves to bodhicitta, the next slogans want to help us with the transformation of bad circumstances into our path of enlightenmentContinue reading “Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 3: Transforming bad circumstances into our path of enlightenment”
Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 2: Bodhicitta
Based on Chapter Chapter 12 “Lojong” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] The need of this training is very clear. Our mind works very ‘ego-centered’ and of course there is a contradiction betweenContinue reading “Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 2: Bodhicitta”
Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 1: Background knowledge
Based on Chapter Chapter 12 “Lojong” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] Lojong (བློ་སྦྱོང་ , blo sbyong) is a practice from Vajrayana, and thus from Tibetan Buddhism. It is often translated as ‘mind training’. The practice itself wasContinue reading “Basic Introduction into Lojong – Part 1: Background knowledge”
[Buchauszug] Der Chondoismus aus buddhistischer Perspektive
Der Chondoismus, auch Ch’ŏndoismus (천도교, Ch’ŏndogyo) ist eine einheimische Religion in Korea, wobei die meisten Anhänger im Norden (DVRK) wohnen. In den nordkoreanischen Medien wird sie als Nationalreligion bezeichnet und hat sogar eine Chondoistische Partei, aber auch in Südkorea hat der Chondoismus geschichtliche Relevanz. Auf Koreanisch wird er als Ch’ŏndogyo, also „Lehre des himmlischen Weges“Continue reading “[Buchauszug] Der Chondoismus aus buddhistischer Perspektive”
Should we understand the six realms within Kamadhatu in Mahayana cosmology as actual existence?
Based on Chapter Chapter 9 “Are the Six Realms irrational?” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] Many people studying Mahayana books probably have heard of the ‘six realms’ （六道）and without any deeper research, one mightContinue reading “Should we understand the six realms within Kamadhatu in Mahayana cosmology as actual existence?”
The Noble Eightfold Path in a nutshell
Based on Chapter 5 “The rationality of Buddhist etiquette” of my book Buddhism for Overthinkers. Trier & Vachendorf: Buddha TS Publishing, 2018. [formerly known as : Rationalism versus Spiritualism and Atheism versus Polytheism in Buddhism. Berlin: epubli, 2015.] The Noble Eightfold Path can be summarized into three categories: prajna, sila, and samadhi. Sammadhitti (‘right view’) which is theContinue reading “The Noble Eightfold Path in a nutshell”
Timo Schmitz 